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marioxb:
Excuse my ignorance if Bondo works on metal, I've never used it. I have a control panel with somewhere close to a bajillion holes in it (made by one of its probably many previous owners) that I'd like to fill in and start over with new holes.

What can I do? I can post pics tomorrow for reference.

TopJimmyCooks:
bondo was designed to work on metal.  it is auto body filler.  you can fill holes with it but you need to get some structure in there to support the bondo - like welding or gluing another piece of flat metal behind the hole.  then you can go to bondo. 

404:
TopJimmyCooks is spot on here. You can take it to a metal shop and have them identify the metal type and tack weld some metal slugs into the control panel if you are hell bent on keeping the original panel. Optionally they can make you another panel as well.

If you absolutely want something to fill in small dents etc in metal while keeping metallic properties, professionals swear by a product called All-Metal manufactured by US Chemical

Rick:
There's also a product called "JB Weld" which is for metal, but again, you need something behind the hole to support it.

Monkeyvoodoo:
Another option is fiberglass. Works like bondo, mixes like bondo. I think there is even a product that combines the two.

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